Re: Gmail

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:20:23 -0500, Paul Lesniewski  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> It has come to my attention that we could add a list of required
> configuration settings for using Gmail as the IMAP/SMTP server behind
> SquirrelMail.

That would be cool. However, there are a few things *in general* that come  
to mind:

1. Gmail IMAP is funky on how you do things. It's best for users to read  
through <http://operawiki.info/GmailImap> to understand how Gmail IMAP  
works. If you try to use it with SM in a traditional IMAP way, you'll have  
problems (unless you install the Gmail labs imap extension, but even then,  
it's kind of buggy).

2. In Europe I believe, the [Gmail] folder will be [GoogleMail] instead.  
And, some other folders might have different names depending on the  
locale. I think Gmail's IMAP server supports the XLIST command exactly for  
this. But, you might not have to worry about that unless you're doing  
something GMAIL-specific in the code.

3. The Gmail IMAP and SMTP servers require ssl/tls, so it's not going to  
work at all unless the SM server supports that, afaik.

4. Once a month or so, the Gmail IMAP server will start sending system  
failure codes when you try to select a folder and do other things. For  
example:

status "mailbox" (UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY)
NO System Error (Failure)

Some IMAP clients choke on that. Not sure if SM would.

-- 
Michael

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